Jay Carney moves to Amazon, where he’ll be senior vice president for worldwide corporate affairs. The former White House press secretary is only the latest former Obama administration official to jump to Silicon Valley, where, presumably, they all got huge pay raises. Show More Summary

Jay Carney will leave his role as a CNN political analyst as he takes a job in the private sector. Playbook reports the former White House press secretary and TIME journalist will join Amazon as SVP of Worldwide Corporate Affairs. He’ll...Show More Summary

As one wit noted, it appears former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is moving from one non-profit organization to another. As Politico reports, Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs - reporting directly to Jeff Bezos and topping current veteran PR Chief Paul Misener. Show More Summary

Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney will join Amazon as senior vice president for worldwide corporate affairs, Politico’s Mike Allen reported Thursday.
The new position brings the e-commerce giant’s worldwide public relations and public policy shops into one department under Carney. Show More Summary

Tech is the new hot destination for former politicos.
Jay Carney, the former White House press secretary for President Barack Obama, has joined Amazon as the senior vice president for worldwide corporate affairs, according to a report from Politico on Thursday. Show More Summary

CNN anchor Jake Tapper continued his prosecution of the Obama administration for not sending a high-level official to the Paris Unity Rally yesterday. He lit into former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, now a CNN contributor, on Monday, asking what the administration was thinking in skipping the rally.

In his time as White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney would often get questions about whether President Barack Obama would approve the Keystone XL pipeline project. Mr. Carney would invariably answer that the State Department, not the president, was running the Keystone review project. Project watchers believe that Mr. Obama’s views on the matter are expected [...]

Jay Carney is a stock market soothsayer.
Back in March, then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the only thing to do as an investor in Russia is to short stocks, or bet that the price of stocks would fall.
Here's the exchange, v ia the White House :
Q: The Russian stock market is soaring the last couple days. Show More Summary

Back in March, then-White House press secretary Jay Carney offered some very explicit advice on investing in Russia: short the country. At first, it looked like an awful call as Russian stock prices surged into the summer. But as Jesse Livermore notes, now it looks smart. Show More Summary

While illegal immigrants are breathing a sigh of relief after the President Obama speech Thursday night, pundits are pointing out some inconsistencies in the executive action that the President is taking and what he said on the issue several times throughout his presidency. Show More Summary